New York City Ballet

03/28/2025

“It’s really important for us to care for them as humans within that framework of a ballet school. I just think life is messy, and life is hard, and ballet is beautiful, and ballet is hard. There’s just a lot that goes into crafting an artist. And usually the best artists haven’t had it easy,” remarks former Principal Dancer Jenifer Ringer on taking on her new role as Director of the Intermediate/Advanced divisions and Artistic Programming at The School of American Ballet.

Read the full feature for The New York Times, by Gia Kourlas: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/arts/dance/jenifer-ringer-school-american-ballet-teacher-nycb.html

Photo: Amir Hamja

03/27/2025

Dance Magazine revisits a 1950 issue which profiled former Principal Dancer Tanaquil Le Clercq. At 20 years old Le Clercq had already danced leading roles in major Balanchine works, including Symphony in C, Bo***ée Fantasque, and The Four Temperaments. Read the feature: https://dancemagazine.com/tanaquil-le-clercq-young-dancer/ .tab=0

Photo: Tanaquil Le Clercq and Jerome Robbins in Bo***ée Fantasque, pictured in 1950 by George Platt Lynes

03/25/2025

For the first time since its film premiere in 2021, Kyle Abraham's When We Fell takes to the stage this spring. Reserve seats to see this subtly evocative work set to piano pieces by Nico Muhly, Morton Feldman, and Jason Moran on the Eclectic NYCB program, opening May 16: nycballet.com/eclecticnycb

03/25/2025

"And so 'Glass Pieces' shows us a line of dancers inching past the graph-paper backdrop like a roll of ticker tape, a human traffic jam that looks only too programmed, a grid of patterns ending finally in an onset of modular units of dancers dancing building-block choreography," wrote Anna Kisselgoff in a review for The New York Times following the world premiere of Jerome Robbins' Glass Pieces in May 1983.

See Robbins' beloved urban ballet on the Innovators & Icons I program this spring: nycballet.com/innovatorsandicons1

Featuring Adrian Danchig-Waring and Unity Phelan

03/21/2025

Hear from Resident Choreographer Justin Peck on co-choreographing Buena Vista Social Club with his wife Patricia Delgado in this Dance Magazine feature:

Buena Vista Social Club choreographers Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado have been part of its creative team since the beginning.

03/20/2025

Resident Choreographer Justin Peck's Belles-Lettres combines intricate costumes by Mary Katrantzou with César Franck's lyrical score, resulting in one of the dance-maker's most romantic works. Created for the 2014 Fall Fashion Gala, Belles-Lettres marks the first time Franck's music was included in the NYCB repertory.

Secure your seats to the Innovators & Icons I program this spring to see Belles-Lettres alongside George Balanchine's Scotch Symphony and Jerome Robbins' Glass Pieces: nycballet.com/innovatorsandicons1

Featuring Anthony Huxley

03/20/2025

Jocelyn Noveck with AP interviewed Principal Dancers Unity Phelan, Mira Nadon, and Miriam Miller about their debuts in the dual role of Odette and Odile in Swan Lake this past winter. Read the feature: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/mount-everest-new-york-new-york-city-ballet-new-jersey-natalie-portman-b2713785.html

03/19/2025

A Suite of Dances, Jerome Robbins "idea for a little dance," originally choreographed on Mikhail Baryshnikov, is a lighthearted solo performed alongside an onstage cellist playing the Bach score.

Will you be in the audience this spring to witness this charming ballet on the Innovators & Icons II program? Reserve tickets at nycballet.com/innovatorsandicons2

Featuring former Principal Dancer Gonzalo Garcia

03/17/2025

The curtain rises again on April 22 to reveal 26 ballets that span the repertory—from choreographic treasures by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins to the return of recent, acclaimed works. Spring performances in our Ballet Unbound Season conclude with a week-long run of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Reserve seats for Spring 2025 while tickets remain. Explore programming at nycballet.com/spring

Film by Elizaveta Porodina ()

03/14/2025

Following its acclaimed world premiere this winter, Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky's Paquita returns this spring.

Don't miss your chance to see Ratmansky's brilliant pairing of George Balanchine's Minkus Pas de Trios with his Paquita Grand Pas on the Innovators & Icons II program: nycballet.com/innovatorsandicons2

Featuring Unity Phelan